Precaution and post-caution in the Paris Agreement: adaptation, loss and damage and finance

Climate Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 33-47

  Sharma, Anju ^a  

^a Oxford Climate Policy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change; climate finance; loss and damage; Paris Agreement; precautionary principle

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FINANCE; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 84983483326     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1213697     Document Type: Article

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